WNM 2019: Walking's New Movements Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth Plymouth, UK, November 1-3, 2019 |
| Conference website | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/walkings-new-movements-conference |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wnm2019 |
| Abstract registration deadline | June 30, 2019 |
| Submission deadline | October 1, 2019 |
‘Walking’s New Movements’: a conference to discuss the latest developments and future prospects for radical walking and walking arts
University of Plymouth (UK), November 1st to 3rd. 2019, (Friday 6pm to Sunday afternoon), Roland Levinsky Building, Drakes Circus, Plymouth.
Organisers: Helen Billinghurst (University of Plymouth), Claire Hind (York St John University) and Phil Smith (University of Plymouth)
‘Walking’s New Movements’ is an opportunity for walking activists, radical walkers, walking artists, and psychogeographers to discuss what is happening in walking now and where new initiatives, changes of direction and novel terrains are emerging. We will particularly welcome contributions that draw from immersive and engaged research.
We invite contributions in a variety of forms: 20 minute papers, 10 minute provocations (‘diverting walking’ sessions – see below), performance and participatory walks on routes close to the conference, short performances about walking for the Saturday night social (which will be a free event, not an expensive conference meal).
We will provide table space for artists and academics to present (and distribute or sell) artworks, books, cds, dvds, etc. (This space will sometimes be looked after by ushers, but it will remain the responsibility of delegates to safeguard their work, and sell copies.) If you are bringing anything very large or requiring particular attention, please let us know beforehand.
Here are some suggestions for possible subjects for papers; but we are mostly looking for subject matter that we as yet do not know about and cannot predict:
Who isn't walking? Why not?
Walking through transitioning identities.
Walking with missing species.
Walking the Chthulucene.
The disappearance of walking routes
Walking and silence
Walking and the sensorium
Rhythm and refrain in walking
Ceremonial walks
Walking as a means to communicate across disciplines
Walking and painting/sculpture/ photography/ writing
Trespassing and transgression
Walking-with: methodologies for social change
Walking groups; conviviality and politics
Forced walks; poverty, migration and expulsion.
Queering the walk
Walking as a subversive act
Accompaniment - what or who accompanies us on our walks?
What remains after a walk?
In order to be as inclusive as we can, we have attempted to keep costs as low as possible. The registration fee will cover arrival drinks, light refreshments, and the buffet at the social event on Saturday night. Delegates have a choice of several cafes and sandwich shops close to the university venue to buy their own lunches.
The registration fees are:
Academic Staff: £45
Independent artists/researchers/students: £25
If you would like to present a 20 minute paper at the conference (performative formats are welcome) please send your proposal as a 150 word (approx.) abstract, with your name, any affiliation, and any special technical requirements (pc and projectors are in all the lecture rooms) to Phil Smith at the email below. If you would like to propose leading/performing a walk or performing something (around walking) for the Saturday evening social, please send your proposal (in 150 words approx.) to Phil Smith at mytho.smith@btopenworld.com
‘Diverting Walking’
We would like to invite 10 minute provocations around the idea of Diverting Walking. By ‘diverting walking’ we are offering a platform to anyone who wants to disrupt walking, who wants to change directions or gaits, who is troubled by present trajectories, assumptions, dominant narratives, movements or complacencies. The 10 minute provocations can range from mini-manifestoes for new ways of walking and mapping new routes for walking to the putting down of a single obstacle. Though the time given to ‘Diverting Walking’ will be flexible and respond to demand, we hope to have at least two sessions of provocations.
If you would like to be involved in ‘Diverting Walking’ and make a 10 minute provocation in the form or interform of live performance, poetry, real-time media, film, participatory take-over, manifesto, meditation, or any other that is right for your impulse to divert, please send a proposal in 150 words (approx.) with your name, any affiliation, and any special technical requirements to Claire Hind at C.Hind@yorksj.ac.uk
Proposals must be received by Sunday 30th June 2019.